Preservatives in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1976
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1976 No. 1887
FOOD AND DRUGS
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Preservatives in Food (Amendment) Regulations 197610thNovember 1976
19thNovember 1976
10thDecember 1976
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Social Services, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 7, 123 and 123A of the Food and Drugs Act 1955(a) as amended by section 4(1) of, and paragraph 3(1) and (2)(a) of Schedule 4 to, the European Communities Act 1972(b) and as read with the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968(c), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations, after consultation with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the regulations and after reference to the Food Hygiene Advisory Council under section 82 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955 (in so far as the regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 7):—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Preservatives in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1976, and shall come into operation on 10th December 1976.
(2) Any reference in these regulations to a numbered regulation or schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or schedule so numbered in the Preservatives in Food Regulations 1975(d), as amended(e).
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889(f) shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Amendment of the principal regulations
2.—(1) The proviso to regulation 4(1) shall be amended—
(a) by inserting after sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (b) thereof the following sub-paragraph (iiiA):—
(a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16.
(b) 1972 c. 68.
(c) S.I. 1968/1699 (1968 III, p. 4585).
(d) S.I. 1975/1487 (1975 III, p. 4956).
(e) S.I. 1976/509 (1976 I, p. 1484).
(f) 1889 c. 63.
"(iiiA) in the case of marinated herring, whose pH exceeds 4.5, or marinated mackerel, whose pH exceeds 4.5, if the permitted preservative hexamine is present, to the maximum quantity of that preservative appropriate to that food in accordance with that Schedule and, as regards any other such permitted preservative present, only if, when the quantity of each such preservative is expressed as a percentage of the maximum quantity appropriate to that food in accordance with that Schedule, the sum of those percentages does not...
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